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I distilled Nanbeige style reasoning into Qwen3 1.7b

Over the past few weeks, I have been deep at work distilling Nanbeige 4.2 3b into Qwen3 1.7b. The result is Arf 1.7b, an edge model (that fits on a smartphone) that reasons longer and more coherently than models of the same class. It works on many popular and supported backends. For a more in depth…

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  1. 2026-09-24 18:55 · r/LocalLLM
    I distilled Nanbeige style reasoning into Qwen3 1.7b

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